The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-09-30

Drive O0ck the Si6nQ0rerS. heleu OsuA ~
. Scotch martyr, condemned with her
to death for Christ's sake,
said to her husband: "Rejoice.
We have lived together many
joyful days, but this day wherein we must
die together ought to he most joyful to rs
both: Therefore, will not bid you good
night, for soon we shall meet in the
Heavenly kingdom" BY the fash Of the
furnace the best Christian character
Is demonstrated.
go into another department, and find
that those great denominations Of Chris.
tians which have been most abused have
spread the most rapidly. No good man
was ever more vilely treated than John
Wesley. His followers were booted at
and maligned and called by every de-
testable name that Internal ingenuity
could invent, but the hotter the persecu-
ton the more rapid the spread Of that de
nomination until yon know what a great
host they have become, and what q tre-
mendous force FOR God and truth they are
welding all the world over. 1t was
persecution that gave Scotland to Pres.
byterianism. 1t was persecution which
gave our own land first to civil liberty
and afterward to religious freedom.
Yea, l may go further back and say it
was persecution that gave the world the
great salvation of the Gospel. The
ribald mockery, the hungering and thirst
ing. the unjust trial and ignominiouc
death, where all the force Of hell's fury
was hurled against the cross, was the
introduction of that religion which is yet
to be the earth's deliverance from guilt
nj 1.nr Ioc tinv n
thronement among the principalities OF
Heaven.
The State has sometimes said to the
Church: "Come. let me take your hand
and l will help you" What has been the
result? The Church has gone back and
has lost its estate of holiness and has be-
come Ineffective. At other times the State
has said to the Church: 81 will crush
YOU" What has been the result? After
the storms have spent their fury the
Church, so far from having lost any Of its
force, has increased and is worth infinitely
more after the assault than before it.
The Church is far more indebted to the
opposition of civil government than to its
approval. The fires of the stake have
only been the torches which Chpst held il
hi. hand by the light of which the Church
has marched to her present position. In thu
sound of racks and implements Of torture
hear the rumbling of the wheels Of The
gospel chariot. Scaffolds of martyrdon
have been the stairs by which the Churcl
has assembled. Aquafortis is the best tes
of pure gold.
Furthermore, our subject impresses u
that sins will come to exposure. Long
long ago had these brothers sold JOSEPH
to Egypt. They had suppressed the crime
and it was profound secret, well kept b.
the brothers. But suddenly the secret !
| out. The old father hears that his son j
| in Egypt, having been sold there by tn
malice Of his own brothers. How theil
| cheeks must have burned and their heart
sunk at the flaming out of this suppressed
crime. The smallest iniquity has
thousand tongues, and they will blab on
al exposure.
Saul was sent to destroy the Canaanites
their sheep and their oxen. But when h
got down there among the pastures he sa,
some fine sheep and oxen too fat to kill
and so he thought he would steal them
He drove them towards home, but stoppe
to report to the prophet how well he ha
| executed his commission, when in the dis
lance the sheep began to bleat and ia
oxen to below. The secret was out, an
Samuel said to the blushing and COZ
founded Saul:
Wheat means the bleating o, to sheep this
Ihear and the lowing Of the cattle.
Aye, my hearers, you cav not keep a
iniquity quiet. At just the wrong tim
the sheep will bleat and the oxen will be
low. Achan can not steal the Babylonis
garment without getting stoned to dealt
nor Benedict Arnold betray his countr
without having his neck stretched. Loo
over the police arrests-these thieves
these burglars, these adulterers, thes
counterfeiters, these highwaymen, thes
assassins. They all thought they coul
bury their iniquity so deep down that
would never come to resurrection. Br
there was some shoe that answered to til
print in the sand, some false keys foun
in possession. some bloody knife thu
whisperedofth the deed, and the public indie
nation and the anathema Of outraged la
hurled him into the Tombs or hoisted hi
on the gallows.
At the close Of the battle between Il
; Dauphin of France and the Helvetian
Burchard Monk was so elated with IL
victory that he lifted his helmet to loo
of upon the field, when q wounded soldi'
hurled stone that struck his uncovere
; forehead and he fell. Sin will alwa,
leave some point exposed. and there is I
> safety In iniquity. Francis the First, Kir
: of France, was discussing how it was be
/ to get his army into Italy. Amaril, Il
, court fool, sprang out from the corner al
, said to the King and his staff officer
: ssYou had better be thinking how you W
/ get your army back out of Italy aft
| once you have entered"
In other words, it is easier for US to 6
into sin than to get out of
) Whitefield was riding on horseba
in a lonely way with some missiona
: money in a sack fastened to t
saddle. bags. A highwayman sprang o
: from the thicket and put his hand out
2 ward the gold, when Whiteield turn
D upon him and said: "That belongs to t
3 Lord Jesus Christ; touch it if you dare
D and the william fell back empty-hand
3 into the thicket. o, the power Of CO
s science! II offended it becomes Coz
!. ayenging minister. Do not think th
: you can hide any great and protracted 6
: in your hearts. In an unguarded nome
9 it will slip off Of the lip, or some slight I
Q casion may for a moment set ajar Il
door of hell that you wanted to ke
0 closed. But suppose that in this life y
t hide it, and you get along with that tral
:. gression burning in your heart, as a 81
o on fire within for days may hinder {
Q fame from bursting out by keeping do,
t the hatchways, yet at last, in the jud
8 ment, that iniquity will blaze out befc
t the throne of God and the universe.
Furthermore. learn from this subject
9 inseparable connection between all ever
d however remote. Lord Hastings was
s headed one year after he had caused
Q death Of the Queens children, in the We
9 month, the very day, the very hour q
d the very moment. There is wonder